Penn Singers is a light opera company at the University of Pennsylvania. It was formed in 1957 by two students, Meryl Moss and Edie Herman, who wanted to create a group of female singers to serve as an alternative to The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club, which was all-male. The original name of the group was Pennsyngers, which was changed to its current form in 1971 when it came under the direction of Bruce Montgomery . The group began performing the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan the next year.
In the years since, the Penn Singers have performed all but one of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, the only collegiate group in America to do so.
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